Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation

Ensuring Every Child in Illinois has the Opportunity to Grow up Healthy.

About ILCHF

Mission/History

Board of Directors

Staff

Stakeholder Information

Oral Health Initiative

Capacity Building

Workforce Development

Awareness & Education

Oral Health Network

Oral Health Partnerships

Mental Health Initiative

CMHI Updates & Resources

Children's MH in Illinois

Integrated Care

In the News

ILCHF Funding

Funding through RFPs

2010 ILCHF RFPs

2009 ILCHF RFPs

Engagement Funding

Grantee Reporting

INTEGRATING PRIMARY CARE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES


One strategy to overcome the barriers in children's mental health services is to integrate primary care and mental health services. 

Over the past two years, the Foundation has funded models that integrated primary care and mental health serviceds throughout the State of Illinois in this particular area.  The funding was to promote innovative, collaborative care models that use evidence informed prevention and intervention approaches. 

The Foundation will continue to monitor these investments and will issue a report on these models in early 2010.


Mental Health Grants 2008
Organization
Amount Awarded
Project Title
Duration
Description
Access Community Health Network
$496,987
Healthy Futures:  A School-Based Mental Health Model
2 years
Renovate space at the Gary Comer Youth Center, purchase equipment and support mental health services to 450 youth, age five to eighteen by creating a comprehensive, integrated student-focused mental health program.
Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center
$200,000
Aunt Martha's Expanded Primary/Behavioral Health Program 
1 year
 Renovate space, provide salary support for two new positions and develop and train staff on assessment tools.  Funding will enable the center to strengthen its mental health assessment protocols and better integrate the medical and mental health care services provided to children age six to fourteen.
Community Health Improvement Council of Decatur, Illinois $200,000
Expansion and Enhancement of Pediatric Mental Health Services
15 months

Renovate space, purchase equipment and build professional capacity.  Expand the Clinic's capacity to provide pediatric mental health services and establish assessment and care management protocols that foster medical and mental health service delivery integration.   
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago
$200,000
Evidence-Based Early Childhood Mental Health Treatment for Early Relationship Problems
15 months

Build capacity to screen and provide early childhood intervention and mental health services.  Three strategies:  (1) partner with Erikson in developing ECMH treatment component (2) implement Circle of Security EBP for mothers with PPD and their infants and (3) assess the feasibility of group treatment program for relationship disorders from birth through five years.
Norwegian American Hospital
$433,564
NAH Primary Care and Behavioral Health Integration Initiative
 2 years 
Coordinate mental health services through the NAH Pediatric Care-A-Van program.  
Rush-Copley Foundation
$450,865
Rush-Copley Binary Health Integration Project (B-HIP)
2 years
Design and implement a collaborative health care model to promote the identification, coordination and treatment of pediatric mental health problems in a primary care setting.
Shawnee Health Service and Development Corporation
$200,000
Integrating Primary Care and Mental Health for Children 
1 year
Provide training in mental health assessment and care management to all providers and nursing staff at six sites that offer primary care.  Develop protocols, patient registry and training curriculum. 
 SIU, School of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine  $500,000  
PEDS CARE: Prevention, Early Detection, and Screening for Children at Risk Emotionally
 2 years  Establish new mental health services for children and adolescents within a patient-centered medical home. 
UIC, Neighborhoods Initiative  $200,000
STARS School Mental Health Expansion - UIC College Prep 
 1 year  Implement the STARS program at the new Noble Street UIC-College Prep School and to support the planning and introduction of services at Percy Julian High School. 
 Whiteside County Community Health Clinic  $159,580  
Integrating Primary Care and Children's Mental Health in a Community Health Clinic
 15 months
Develop an expanded comprehensive screening, referral and treatment network between Whiteside County Community Health Center (FQHC), Whiteside County Health Department and Sinnissippi Center.

Integration Planning Grants Awarded 2008
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Mental Health Grants 2007
Organization
Amount Awarded
Project Title
Duration
Description
Access Community Health Network
$200,000
Best Beginnings: Mental Health and Primary Care for Children
1 year
Construction and staffing of an infant mental health and development suite at new comm. clinic in Northwest Cook County.
Chestnut Health Systems Inc.
$192,657
Embedding Behavioral Health Screening, Treatment, Consultation, and Skills Building at two Care Sites.
1 year
Introduce behavioral health services at two primary care sites in Southern Illinois. Funding will be used towards staffing, equipment, and office operating expenses.
Franklin-Williamson Human Services Inc. And Affiliates
$110,000
Solutions for Youth
1 year
Expand mental health services currently provided to four school districts in Williamson County. Funding will cover a portion of costs to purchase two mobile counseling units.
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago
$100,000
Next Steps: Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment Services for Early Childhood Mental Health
1 year
Expand organization's current pediatric mental health program that provides prevention, assessment, and early detection services from birth-3.
PCC Community Wellness Center
$79,000
Transitions for Wellness
1 year
Support expansion of the organization's integrated behavioral healthcare program from its Oak Park site to six more locations on Chicago's west side.
U of IL at Chicago, Neighborhoods Initiative
$200,000
Mile Square Community Mental Health Expansion Project for High Risk Youth
1 year
Introduce mental health services at two clinics and staff the new program.
Youth Guidance
$200,000
Yo Peudo/I Can
1 year
Expand existing mental health services to high schoolers at Roberte Clemete Comm. Academy. Funding used to renovate clinic space and add new staff.


  
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation, 1200 Jorie Boulevard, Suite 301, Oak Brook, IL  60523
(p) 630.571.2555 (f) 630.571.2566